At First Sight is built around a good premise: how will a blind man cope with being able to see after years of navigating through the world by touch, sound and smell? Blind Val knows, for example, that an apple is an apple by feeling its shape and its texture, and by noting its smell. But he doesn't know what it looks like. So when the seeing Val is shown a picture of an apple, he can't recognise it. Like a new-born child, he's faced with re-learning everything he knows. He's still disabled, but in a different way.
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